by Teresa Shields Parker | Jun 21, 2019 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
I was a bossy kid, I’ll admit it. I blame it on the fact that when my mother was having emotional issues I had to make decisions, grown up decisions like what to fix for supper or whether or not my brother and/or sister could go over to a friend’s house. These... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jun 5, 2019 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, Purpose, Uncategorized
If you want to go on weight loss journey, you must first want to change. You have to get your own want-to. Ok, so you probably won’t find that word in the dictionary. You will find wanter, which means “one that wants or is in need.” A want-to is why a wanter wants... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jun 4, 2019 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
There is a huge myth that weight loss companies have perpetuated through years of pitching products to us. That myth is that losing weight is fast and easy. That may be true for a few people who are not yet addicted to foods that contain sugar, flour and high... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jun 4, 2019 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Purpose
The dictionary defines a journey as, among other definitions, “a long and often difficult process of personal change and development.” My five stages of weight loss outline the process you must go through to achieve personal change or as I like to refer to... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jun 3, 2019 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, Purpose, Uncategorized
As human beings, we are learners at heart. We learn best when we have a burning desire to learn. Probably the best motivation for learning is that if we don’t learn that particular skill we won’t survive … in our jobs, in our marriages, or in our lives period. The... 
by Teresa Shields Parker | Jun 2, 2019 | Blog, Devotional, Health, Inspiration, overcomers, Uncategorized
When I was growing up I never had a doubt that my grandmother loved me. I knew it for sure because any negative emotion of the shame of not being the most popular girl in school was filled nicely with Grandma’s desserts. A weekend at Grandma’s house filled with... 
